Improvement in car-seat locks



No. 2 o2,3o8.

A. K WADDILL. Car-Seat Look.

Patented April 9,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABEL K. WADDILL, OF DENISON, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-SEAT LOCKS.

Speoification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202.308, clated April 9, 1878;

February 27, 1878.

To all whomit may concem:

Be it known that I, ABEL K. WADDILL, of Denison, in the County of Grayson and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Look for Car-Beats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The reversible backs of car-seats have been locked by means of a rod having pins that engage lugs or projections on said backs, the arrangement being such that all the backs of a row of seats could be locked or unlocked simultaneously.

My invention is an improvement upon that, and consists in providing the looking-rod with elaws or lngs, which catch over the pivot-arms of the reversible baoks, and with a rigid arm, which serves both as a means for Operating the looking-bar and for securing or fastening it when properly adjusted for looking the seatbacks, as hereina-fter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a fragment of the interior of a passenger railway-car, showing the application of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan View, with the side wall of the car in section.

A A indicate the end portions of seat-frames, and B B the reversible backs thereof, which are supported, in the usual way, by engagement of lugs a With their pivot-arms b.

The rod or bar C, by which the seat-backs B are locked, is arranged in a lengthwise recess, d, in the side D of the car, so that it occupies no space in the interior of the car, and cannot application filed come in contact with the clothing of passengers. The rod is provided with claws or lugs c, which, when it is turned a quarter round, will engage or catch over the pivot-arms I of the backs B, and hold them locked so long as the rod is prevented from turning back. To hold the rod thus locked I apply a rigid arm, E, to one end of the rod, and provide it With a slot to receive a staple which is fixed in the wall, and to which a padlock is attached when the bar E has been turned down. Thus the looking-rod is operated by the same lover-arm by which it is held in the position required to lock the reversible seat-backs.

I am aware a hasp has been applied to .prevent a rod from turning when properly adjusted for looking car-seat backs, and I do not claim such conbination of parts.

What Ido claim is- The combination, with the rod C, having claws or lugs, and the reversible seat-backs B, of the slotted lever-arm E *and the looking device, said arin being rigidly attached to the rod, so as to serve both as a means for operatin g it and holding it in a fixed position, all as shown and described.

The above specifioation of ny invention signed by me this 4th day of February, A. D. 1878.

ABEL K. WADDILL.

. Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMoN, AMOS W. HART. 

